Re: Trying to rebuild all of Debian Packages
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 11:10:03AM +0100, Bas Zoetekouw wrote:
>
> I think every package should have a Build-Deps field, which must be
> empty if the building of the package does not require any
> build-essentials. That way, it can easily be seen whether for a
> particular package Build-deps have not yet been implemented are are just
> empty.
After woody, with this policy change, packages not having build-deps
and requiring them can be made to not successfully autobuild (ignore
central build-deps) -- then serious bugs are filed and something is
likely to get done about it at some point.
Julian
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